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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 06, 2018
Filed:
Jun. 23, 2015
Sandia Corporation, Albuquerque, NM (US);
Anthony L. Lentine, Albuquerque, NM (US);
Gregory N. Nielson, Lehi, UT (US);
Jose Luis Cruz-Campa, Albuquerque, NM (US);
Murat Okandan, Edgewood, NM (US);
Ronald S. Goeke, Albuquerque, NM (US);
National Technology & Engineering Solutions of Sandia, LLC, Albuquerque, NM (US);
Abstract
A photovoltaic module includes colorized reflective photovoltaic cells that act as pixels. The colorized reflective photovoltaic cells are arranged so that reflections from the photovoltaic cells or pixels visually combine into an image on the photovoltaic module. The colorized photovoltaic cell or pixel is composed of a set of 100 to 256 base color sub-pixel reflective segments or sub-pixels. The color of each pixel is determined by the combination of base color sub-pixels forming the pixel. As a result, each pixel can have a wide variety of colors using a set of base colors, which are created, from sub-pixel reflective segments having standard film thicknesses.